Cars that will go up in value

[cantstopbuyingcars]

Just interested in everyone's two cents on this- what cars do you think will appreciate in the next 5 or 10 years? Obviously it's impossible to accurately predict or else we'd all have Sierra Cosworth's in our garages. But does anyone have any bets?

[Hoofy]

Cheaper Porsches and other performance brands. Anything with a V8 etc.

[Koolkat969]

GR Yaris

[Whitean3]

Audi B7 RS4 (please please please!)
I think the prices have already begun to move upwards slightly.

Looks like prices of the 997 Porsches have stabilised and may be beginning to rise again too.
The M3 CSL, a few years older, has already appreciated significantly

My general thought is anything around 15 years old and interesting/highly rated at the time/relatively rare is the sweet spot where depreciation tends to stop. Leave it too long after that, and you may miss the boat as prices rise too high (for me at least)

[cantstopbuyingcars]

Hoofy said:

Cheaper Porsches and other performance brands. Anything with a V8 etc.

Yeah good call, I think the 996 Turbo's and C4S's are already appreciating! You used to be able to get a 996 for sub-£10k

[some bloke]

RHD 1966 Chev Impala pillarless sedans. You heard it here first.

[Hoofy]

cantstopbuyingcars said:

Hoofy said:

Cheaper Porsches and other performance brands. Anything with a V8 etc.

Yeah good call, I think the 996 Turbo's and C4S's are already appreciating! You used to be able to get a 996 for sub-£10k

Yep!

[croyde]

My Dacia Duster is worth 10 percent more than when I bought it a year and a half ago

[Jamescrs]

cantstopbuyingcars said:

Yeah good call, I think the 996 Turbo's and C4S's are already appreciating! You used to be able to get a 996 for sub-£10k

I think 986 Boxsters are going to go the same way as 996's become out of peoples budget the 986 is going to start looking more appealing to buyers (I admit I have some interest in the prices rising) Seeing it in the owners groups now people are buying up original parts to put their cars back to how they came from the factory, original stereo headunits and the orange (fried egg) indicators are becoming desirable again.


18 months ago I was looking at 996's at around 15k and now nothing worthwhile is under 20k

[threespires]

some bloke said:

RHD 1966 Chev Impala pillarless sedans. You heard it here first.

Good shout! I sold them as new cars.

[Stick Legs]

TVRs.

Look at anything else from that era and they seem cheap.

Early BMW X5.

A bit of a design classic.
Drive well.
The weak gearboxes can be repaired
The V8’s sound lovely.

Anything from Ferdinand Piech’s portfolio of mentalness.

V10 Touareg.
W8 Passat.
W12 Phaeton.
Good early W12 Continental GT’s.

We shall never see their like again.

Edited by Stick Legs on Wednesday 20th July 14:33

[cantstopbuyingcars]

Jamescrs said:

I think 986 Boxsters are going to go the same way as 996's become out of peoples budget the 986 is going to start looking more appealing to buyers (I admit I have some interest in the prices rising) Seeing it in the owners groups now people are buying up original parts to put their cars back to how they came from the factory, original stereo headunits and the orange (fried egg) indicators are becoming desirable again.


18 months ago I was looking at 996's at around 15k and now nothing worthwhile is under 20k

That's true, I've got a 986 S myself, they're superb cars, I think they're starting to look more attractive and classic especially when well kept. They do cost a lot to maintain but that's what you expect from a 20 year old performance car. When I was a child a few years ago they were definitely seen as poor man's cars and I think that's changing slowly. I'll possibly want a 996 C4S/997 next year before prices go haywire

[Muzzer79]

Early 2000s Civic Type R

I think Porsche Boxsters have been undervalued for a while.

[Stick Legs]

Agree with Boxsters.

Where 924 / 944 were a few years ago.

[cantstopbuyingcars]

Muzzer79 said:

Early 2000s Civic Type R

I think Porsche Boxsters have been undervalued for a while.

In reality, once one can get round the snobbery of it not being a 911 it really is about 80-90% of what the 996 is for about a third of the price.

[ingenieur]

I don't agree with the luxo-barges going up in value. It's never happened before. People are generally terrified by the idea of having to live with a Mercedes S-class / BMW 7-series - V10 Touareg, W8 Passat, W12 Phaeton... all in the same boat. You'll see survivors at classic car shows over the years but they won't be crossing the floor at Coys for 1.5mill

[av185]

My Corgi Batmobile has appreciated more than my GT3 and will probably continue to do.

Percentage wise that is.

[SteveStrange]

cantstopbuyingcars said:

Hoofy said:

Cheaper Porsches and other performance brands. Anything with a V8 etc.

Yeah good call, I think the 996 Turbo's and C4S's are already appreciating! You used to be able to get a 996 for sub-£10k

Indeed, and 2 years ago I did.

[some bloke]

threespires said:

some bloke said:

RHD 1966 Chev Impala pillarless sedans. You heard it here first.

Good shout! I sold them as new cars.

Cool - whereabouts?

[aka_kerrly]

Can't you simply buy a car because you like it, you can afford it and enjoy it, then if you can sell it for anything around what you paid in a few years consider it an added bonus?